‘Talking to the Brer Rabbits’. Sherborn sent this drawing of himself in 1922 to the ‘nearly nine’ -year-old Muriel Arber who had been unwell. She was the daughter of his great friend, the botanist, philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society, Mrs Agnes Arber. All that can be seen of Sherborn is a large hat and the smoke from his ubiquitous pipe. ‘I hope you are quite well again,’ he wrote to Muriel, ‘It is no use being ill, it is such a waste of time. Your friend, C. Davies Sherborn’. (With permission of The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London)